Syria

There are issues here as to where this [foreign supplied weapons] goes and that we need to all work hard to ensure that extremists, jihadists, al-Qaida, other groups who don’t share our larger interest in seeing a democratic Syria emerge from all of this, get their hands on weapons that can be used to exploit the situation ... We’ve also been very clear in calling on all members of the opposition to actively, publicly reject extremists in their midst, reject efforts by extremists to hijack the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people.

Nuland also urged Syria's neighbours to keep a vigilant watch over their airspace after Turkey grounded a passenger jet last week on suspicion of supply arms to the Syrian government.